Sounds like you're using .Net 1.0 or 1.1. It's been improved in 2.0. Granted, it still isn't as easy as VFP, but it's a step forward from previous versions.


>I love it....those of you who use C# regularly say it is so simple to create a UI, a dataset and bind the controls.
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>You have to admit it.....when creating a dataset, you first need to create the connection, retrieve the data, load the data to the object that is relevant to the UI, bind the relevant object properties and hope the connection doesn't return a null or all bets are off and you have to put in your null exception handling.
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>Getting into programming later in life, I became very spoiled by the visual products and the ease of FoxPro as opposed to coming up through the C ranks. Give me a customizable grid control, a good old cursor.......something I can SEEK, LOCATE, SCAN or SCATTER and GATHER without having to build a middle tier of code and objects that i wil then use in the same fashion I did in FoxPro. ive me good old record pointers that are where you left them when you found matching criteria in a table.......